Next, the ASO welcomed virtuoso Leila Josefowicz to the stage, stunning in a modern Grecian gown, for the Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major. In the grand first movement, Josefowicz dazzled ...

For someone who’s been ahead of her time for years, it seems the world might be catching up to Leila Josefowicz. The American-Canadian violinist is internationally acclaimed for performing ...

it would be because of violinist Leila Josefowicz and the composer she interpreted, Thomas Adès. Josefowicz because she has become the go-to champion of new violin repertoire from leading ...

But little could have prepared Leila Josefowicz for the violin concerto Steve Mackey composed for her. Mackey had intended to write a high-energy, virtuosic work for Josefowicz. Then, just as he ...

Violinist Leila Josefowicz, who will perform in The Syracuse Orchestra’s Feb. 15 Masterworks concert, used two adjectives to describe herself in a phone interview last week: “adventurous” an ...

December 13, 2021, New York - Mannes School of Music at The New School’s College of Performing Arts (CoPA) is honored to announce the appointment of Leila Josefowicz to the Mannes faculty, serving as ...

July 15, 2020 Still, there was never any doubt that John Adams’ Violin Concerto with Leila Josefowicz as soloist was the main attraction. The concerto, which proved an instant sensation at its ...

Leila Josefowicz, violinist extraordinaire, opened a semi-residency at the Kennedy Center with a recital Saturday at the Terrace Theater (she’ll also appear with the National Symphony in January ...

For Leila Josefowicz, the lure of new music is irresistible. The Canadian-American violinist is happy to leave much of the standard repertoire to her peers, focusing instead on works by the great ...

The National Symphony Orchestra played a work Thursday night that took a pop-music approach to classical composition. Not because Steven Mackey's "Beautiful Passing" — a violin concerto written ...

In a talk before her Library of Congress recital Saturday, violinist Leila Josefowicz acknowledged a contrarian attraction to being musically disruptive — a reaction, she surmised, to a ...